Love
Seraphina, 5
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Seraphina
Love
How curiously the seamew
Looks over at us, dear,
Because against thy lips I
So firmly press my ear!
She maybe would discover
What from thy mouth did flow,--
If words alone or kisses
Thou in my ear didst throw.
O could I but decipher
What ’tis that fills my mind!
The words are with the kisses
So wondrously combined.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Seraphina, 5.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/172/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Seraphina, 5.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/172/.
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